Saturday 19 December 2021 was the 40th anniversary of the loss of the Penlee lifeboat ‘Solomon Browne’, which was launched in hurricane conditions to go to the aid of a coaster which was being swept towards the southern coast of Cornwall.
Into the Night by Frazer Flintham is the stage adaptation of a book about the heroic but ultimately tragic attempted rescue; and was due to be performed and live-streamed by the Original Theatre Company on the night of Saturday 18 December. Sadly, falling as it did during a significant wave of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, this performance was in the end cancelled – which is significant because this streamed run, available until the end of August 2022, is actually a film of the company's dress rehearsal.
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